There is a serious need to improve the effectiveness of states’ action against money laundering and terrorist financing according to the Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) body Moneyval in its recently released Annual Report… Read More ›
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has issued a directive to all commercial banks demanding foreign companies operating in the country register a Technology Transfer Agreement (TTA) with the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC). The directive comes in the wake of… Read More ›
Bahrain is to prosecute Iran’s most prominent financial institutions on charges related to money laundering of US$1.3 billion via the now defunct Bahrain-based Future Bank. This is the largest such case in the Gulf state’s history. Prosecutors say Future Bank… Read More ›
Two of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) biggest sanctions in the last 12 months related to failures to address financial crime and anti-money laundering (AML) risks according to the authority’s executive director of enforcement and market oversight, Mark Steward…. Read More ›
The UAE has launched a blockchain-based trade finance platform aimed at curbing double-financing and misinvoicing. UAE Trade Direct then intends turning to other key areas of trade finance, such as digitalising bills of lading and e-invoices and, in time, expects… Read More ›
Importers, exporters, and their financial institutions have shifted away from traditional, document-based trade finance instruments over recent years towards non-documentary, open account settlement through clean wire transfers, which significantly increases sanctions risks according to maritime insight provider Windward. It says… Read More ›
Stronger laws and institutions are needed to prevent corruption and money laundering while bankers, lawyers and accountants who enable financial crime must face punitive sanctions says a UN panel. The High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for… Read More ›
Transparency International (TI) has published a new report which shows how some of the world’s richest countries fail to enforce laws against foreign bribery. Exporting Corruption examines 47 leading global exporting countries of which 43 are signatories of the Organisation… Read More ›